*heh* Quite the conumdrum, Fez man…! ;-)

…The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.

Shows principles, that’s Santorum, except the ones he shows are about screwy concepts that are bad for the country.

Ron Paul 1998

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZtPzOukjZA

Romney/Santorum 2012. Okey-doke.

Nope Doke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtK3e8YFYTM

Thanks, I needed that. Now I’m ready for another year of work.

Rupert’s Web tells us Santorum is humble. Coming soon: “terrific” and “radiant”. Personally, I’m with Templeton on “crispy”.

Link I think I read that before not sure where?

Rupert likes Rick he is putting his Cred out for Rick? Did I miss something in the polls an Iowa win won’t suddenly make Rick second or maybe even third place in New Hampshire or South Carolina. Rick has no money did the PTB give up on all the other GOP candidates?
What is there about Rick that Rupert likes?

Somehow I doubt Rupert writes his own tweets.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.
Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. As Kruger and Dunning conclude, “the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others” (p. 1127).[2] The effect is about paradoxical defects in cognitive ability, both in oneself and as one

Hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

The Staussian Elite Obama/Bush WH seems to be full of them. Is Rupert really dumb enough to back Rick without getting something for his trouble’s even if Rupert really thinks Rick can win?
Assuming Rupert really ok’ed the tweet?
We need to find out whats in it for Rupert. What does he want that he thinks Rick can give him? I don’t think that the other GOPers running for President would not promise Rupert their firstborn for his endorsement.
So why would Rupert settle on Rick?

The hypothesized phenomenon was tested in a series of experiments performed by Justin Kruger and David Dunning, both then of Cornell University.[2][5] Kruger and Dunning noted earlier studies suggesting that ignorance of standards of performance is behind a great deal of incompetence. This pattern was seen in studies of skills as diverse as reading comprehension, operating a motor vehicle, and playing chess or tennis.
Kruger and Dunning proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:
tend to overestimate their own level of skill;
fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they can be trained to substantially improve.
Dunning has since drawn an analogy (“the anosognosia of everyday life”)[1][6] to a condition in which a person who suffers a physical disability because of brain injury seems unaware of or denies the existence of the disability, even for dramatic impairments such as blindness or paralysis.

He’ll bring the Talibangelicals to the polls if he’s Romney’s veep.

Romney’s the Republican mirror image of Hubert Humphrey, methinks. Nominating him will tear the GOP apart. Everyone is insisting he needs a Muskie to unify the party.

And this may be the whole Republican primary in a nutshell. Each candidate gets ready for their VP closeup, then has their moment under the klieg lights.

Watching Rick Perry is reinforcement of the concept. He doesn’t realize he’s dumb, because he’s too stupid to see it.

Good morning ,

Like a certain someone who believes he is some kind of an eleven dimensional chess genius and brags about that delusion ?

Good morning, pups. Prof. Krugman is flying solo today. He says “Nobody Understands Debt,” and that the obsession with deficit reduction is wrongheaded and ill-informed. But it’s working, doncha know… Thanks to the wrong-headed focus on austerity and budget-cutting in lieu of actually addressing unemployment now it’s possible to hire people at reduced wages because they’re desperate and will work for less.

Here he is.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got popovers this morning. I like them with just gobs of butter, but I’ve also got your favorite jam. I’ve got a rather extensive “to do” list today, full of exciting things like laundry and scrubbing the bathrooms, so I’m off to get started on it. Have a great day.

Thanks and Happy New Year, Marion; deficits are as real as WMDs and must also be fought at the expense of the economy.

Krugman: “Second — and this is the point almost nobody seems to get — an over-borrowed family owes money to someone else; U.S. debt is, to a large extent, money we owe to ourselves.”

FWIW, we were teaching this in Econ 101 over 50 years ago. That’s an indication of how disastrously low our national “conversation” has sunk. That’s an indication of what a completer fucking idiot we have in the WH — claiming, as he does, that the country is just like a family and has to “tighten its belt.”

Why do we pay interest to the (un) federal reserve?

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/174953-rep-paul-introduces-bill-to-cancel-public-debt-held-by-the-fed

The Bard of Princeton speaks:

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our debt, but in ourselves if we are reactionaries.

“Nobody Understands Debt,” and that the obsession with deficit reduction is wrongheaded and ill-informed.

To be fair debt spent on gambling like the banks are doing I think is bad. Debt spent on wars is bad. Debt spent on creating jobs thats good Happy New Year Marrion:)

the allegedly urgent issue of reducing the budget deficit.

Yeah funny how SS and Medicare were cut but no talk of taxing the rich more? Just how bad could the debt be if we don’t tax the rich more?

People who get their economic analysis from the likes of the Heritage Foundation have been waiting ever since President Obama took office for budget deficits to send interest rates soaring. Any day now!

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

Our Heritage was a bunch of morons? Glen Beck is being investigated for pushing gold coins that were lite on the weight or not what people paid for in large part because of his soaring interest rate scare tacics.

It’s true that foreigners now hold large claims on the United States, including a fair amount of government debt. But every dollar’s worth of foreign claims on America is matched by 89 cents’ worth of U.S. claims on foreigners. And because foreigners tend to put their U.S. investments into safe, low-yield assets, America actually earns more from its assets

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

My bold Why don’t we forgive our debt to them they forgive there debt to us the remaining 11% we can get from taxes on the rich income and assets. John McCain has 9 houses he loses 5 of them for example and a guy in China gets 5 rental properties he can sell when the market is better.

O Iowa
O Iowa
How I love your Iowanians
The corn you grow is sweet and fresh
Tis way better than Bangladesh
O Iowa
O Iowa
How I love your Iowanians

Let’s give a shout out to Iowanians, who’ve messed with every Republican candidate real good. Thanks y’all, we’re gonna miss ya after tomorrow night. See ya in 2015.

Betcha they vote for Ron Paul. The trouble with Iowa setting up as the Big Hurdle for candidates is that the voters don’t do research into candidate histories, they just listen to what talking points they’re putting out to get elected.

Faith in the “Jimmy Carter Gambit” opening is now the unmistakable sign of an unranked tyro.

The only two serious Republican players this year were goiing to completely ignore Iowa. Restore Our Failure changed its mind after every other candidate there imploded, and the Borg decided it would look worse to place third or fourth to this bunch of losers than to pretend they didn’t exist. The other one is still ignoring them, and concentrating on New Hampshire.

Umm.. Rupie… dear

IT’s probably a good idea not to use the words “surging” and “Santorum” in the same sentence. Mind you you’ve been out of touch for quite a while. I thought you were angling for the Ronald Reagan defense during your testimony at the Leveson inquiry. This whole twitter thing is clearly something to occupy your tired, befeebled mind while James gets on with the serious business of shredding documents and covering both your asses from the legal consequences of your underling’s little phone hacking scam. Perhaps you should just give up the politics and just post about how hot your Chinese trophy wife is. I’m sure Wendi’s being extra nice now she senses the reading of the will is near.

You know, he did not capitalize the “S” in Santorum, so maybe he was talking about the other stuff…..